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Phillips' reputation cost him his life in January 1911, when he was shot outside the Princeton Club at Gramercy Park in New York City. The killer was a Harvard -educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra who came from a prominent Maryland family.
Jan 14, 2011 · One hundred years ago, a libel accusation leveled at a famous novelist ended in the most spectacular crime in American literary history.
- Peter Duffy
Jun 23, 2022 · The victim whose death gave birth to the strictest gun restrictions in the nation was identified by police as David Graham Phillips, a 43-year-old novelist who had been gaining increasing...
Jun 23, 2022 · David Graham Phillips, 43, was gunned down in New York City in 1911, a murder that led to the strictest gun restrictions in the nation. Phillips was walking to the The Princeton Club...
- Andrea Cavallier
Jan 23, 2011 · On Jan. 23, 1911, a novelist, David Graham Phillips, was shot by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough in a brazen early afternoon attack on East 21st Street (or, as it is known today, Gramercy Park...
Apr 6, 2007 · April 5, 2007, 10:20 PM PDT. By Stone Phillips. Diane Zamora and David Graham were high school sweethearts and among the nation’s best and brightest— until they were convicted of murder. The...
Jan 23, 2024 · David Graham Phillips wasn’t the only New Yorker to fall victim to gun violence in the century’s first decade. In August of 1910 an aggrieved dock worker shot Mayor William Gaynor through the neck in Hoboken. (He survived but the bullet remained in his throat, killing him three years later.)
